Harper's Weekly - May 23, 1903

Front Cover, Harper's Weekly, Vol. XLVII No. 2422, New York, Satuday, 23 May 1903 Illustrated Section. GGA Image ID # 19ff582a69

Copyright © 1903 Harper & Brothers

The 23 May 1903 issue of Harper's Weekly focused on Our New American Citizens. In 1902, 650,000 persons came here to live, and now it seems certain, from the record of the first three months of 1903, that this enormous figure will be exceeded this year.

Contents:

1. Cover Illustration: Our New American Citizens
2. Article: The Passing of Gibraltar
   Map showing Gilbraltar's present defensive Weakness and Plans for Proposed Improvements.
3. Article: Ideals of American Womanhood: The Literary Woman by Caroline Duer
   Photo of Caroline Duer
4. Article: 27 Bridges in 53 Weeks - 5 Photographs
5. Illustration - Full Page: "My Lady Peggy Goes to Town," at Daly's
6. Article: Will it Rain or Shine Tomorrow? The Way the Weather Forecast is made at the Weather Bureau in Washington
   Photo: Translating Weather Reports received in Cipher, and Charting them on the Maps.
   Photo: Putting the Weater-symbol Type in Place
   Photo: Measuring the Heat recieved from the Sun
   Illustration (Full Page): Making the Weather Forecast at Washington
7. Illustration -Full Page: Tap-Day at Yale
8. Article: Captain Little Again by W. E. Cairnes - 2 Illustrations
9. Major Article: Pittsburgh, the Giant Industrial City of the World
   Photographs: Higland Park Avenue, Old Block House, Wood Street, Head of Ohio River, City Hall, Post Office, Court House, Chirst Methodist Episcopal Church, Glass Plant, Jeannette, Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, Serpentine, Schenley Park, Edward T. C. Slease, and Francis Le Baron Robbins
   Illustrations: First Post Office, Homestead Works, Plant of Riter-Conly Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Frick Building, Plant of A. M. Byers & Co. (Incorporated), Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Cathedral, Peoples' Savings Bank Building, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Farmers' Deposit National Bank
10. Biographies:
    Edward T. C. Slease & Co.
    The Pittsburg Coal Company
    Francis Le Baron Robbins and American Turst Company of Pittsburgh
    William E. Corey (+ Photo)
    David M. Clemson (+ Photo)
    The Late Capt. J. J. Vandergrift (+ Photo)
    John H. Jones (+ Photo)
    Henry Bruce Beatty (+ Photo)
    Murray Adolp Verner (+ Photo)
    The National Tube Company
    The Late William A. Herron (+ Photo)
    Home J. Linsay (+ Photo)
    The American Steel & Wire Company
    The Jones & Lauglin Steel CompanyA
    Francis J. Torrance
    Joshua W. Rhodes & Co.
    The A. Garrison Foundry Company
    The Hostetter Company
    Phillips Mine & Mill Supply Co.
11. Two Page Large Illustration: The Song Without Words: Drawn by Clarence F. Underwood
12. Full Page Comic Strip: The Auto Ride - A Horse-less Delusion Unhorsed, Drawn by Albert Levering
13. Brief Articles:
    A Naval Engagement Indoors
    Edison's Latest Invention
    A Valuable Life
    The Secret of Phosphorescense
    A Novel Kind of Buoy
    A Successful Woman Composer (Ingeborg von Bronsart)
    Artificial Food
    Why We Shake Hands
    The Reliance and Shamrock III (Yachts)
    Black-Bass Fishing in Pennsylvania
14. Reader Comments
15. Article: Mr. Cleveland and the Presidency
16. Article: Recent Views of the Fifteenth Amendment
17. Article: The Influence of American Wealth on Divorce
18. Article: Fashionable Chicago
19. Article: The Artistic Temperament
20. Article: The Church and Its Status
21. Article: The Manchurian War-Scare
22. Article: Latin America in a New Light by Marion Wilcox
23. Biography: Richard Henry Stoddard
24. Article: The British Army Officer by Sydney Brooks
25. Article: Books and Bookmen
26. Article: The School Investigation in Washington
27. Article: Finance